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Tag Archives: attachment parenting
Parentisms: Time [isn't] In A Bottle
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": “Parentisms” is a little series offering tiny mantras and quick thoughts on the nature of parenting. My hope is that these little perspective framers will be a boon for parents of all … Continue reading →
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Possession -- 9/10 of the Problem?
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": “This body is mine, cuz it was born on me. Just I get to use it, and no one else. That’s why it’s my body.” That’s the extent of 3 year old Echo’s … Continue reading →
Your Kid as Johnny 5
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": “Need input. Need input. Neeeed iinnnpuut!” Your child is an information and experience Hoover. She was born to devour data. He was created in just such a way as to be driven to gorge … Continue reading →
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The Continuing Adventures of the EP Soccer Family
Well, it feels kind of official now — we’re driving the minivan (Syliva Brown McTague), and we actually have a soccer player in it. The consummate icon of modern parenting — the Soccer Mom — has been somehow grafted onto … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment parenting, building connection with children, children, empathy parenting, family, kid world, life, natural parenting, parent-child relations, parenting, parenting your burgeoning athlete, praise and punishment, soccer, soccer mom, soccer pop, sports, using empathy
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Empathy Schmimpathy… Why Bother?!
There’s a change occurring in the world of parenting today. A gradual shift is taking shape and gliding toward new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the parent-child relationship. The old adages we grew up with — of children being seen … Continue reading →
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Mama -- if you love me -- why don't you like me?
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": Here’s a question worth considering — What do you think of your child? Here’s a more important one — What does your child think you think of him/her? The two are related … Continue reading →
F-ing Up the Right Way
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": I am not a perfect parent — just so you know. I do the things I have actually spent time thinking and researching and learning about why not to do them. I say the … Continue reading →
This Day… 4.14.13
It did actually — somehow both finally and instantly – happen. There we were, watching this girl — this little, brand new baby of a girl, suddenly a 3-foot lightning bolt — racing around a field, with other kids she barely … Continue reading →
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Tagged alfie kohn, attachment parenting, competition, empathy parenting, family, kid fun, life, natural parenting, parent-child relations, parenting, soccer, sports
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Parentisms: Reading You Loud and Clear
“Come in — come in — this is the infant brain — all systems are go and we are reading you loud and clear — copy?” The human brain is a wonder of the cosmos. It regularly performs feats which … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment parenting, attachment parenting is good for babies brains, building connection with children, children, cro-magnon parenting, development, mirror neurons, modeling, natural parenting, optimal brain development, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting
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This Day — 4.10.13
So today, this happened… Note the kid in the middle of the shot, next to the adult with purple jersey in hand… Echo had her very first ever soccer practice. (!) She’s signed up with the local Y league and … Continue reading →
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Eyes on the Prize
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": We parents have a ton of goals, don’t we? We have ideals toward which we live for ourselves, how we parent, what we hope for our children. We have ways we want … Continue reading →
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Help Me Out -- Stop Trying to Fix It
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": As parents, we are almost constantly saddled with various repairs, clean-ups, re-workings, and resettings for our children. In fact, we get so used to being the ones to restore order and serenity … Continue reading →
Building an Emotionally Safe Household
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": My highly esteemed partner, Natalie (that’s her, being the human pillow), wrote the article below for Mothering Magazine (before they went paperless…) and it so perfectly encapsulates the sum total of our approach … Continue reading →
Benefit of the Belief
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": As parents, we’re all pretty used to being the ones most “in the know” in the family, right? We’re “the bosses”, “the head honchos”, “the leaders”, “the responsible parties”. Sometimes we don’t … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment parenting, building connection with children, children, controlling children, controlling children's behavior, empathy parenting, family, kid world, life, modeling, natural parenting, parent-child relations, parenting, radical strategies, using empathy
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The Trust Equation
Reblogged from "A Beautiful Place of the World": Today, I wanted to present you with a simple parenting algebra equation to derive trust. It says that the trust our kids feel in us is directly proportional to the product of … Continue reading →
